Gosnell, whose filthy-foul smelling office was frequented by mostly desperately poor minorities, repeatedly joked that one baby he delivered was “big enough to walk me to the bus stop”.

Over three decades, Kermit Gosnell performed late-term abortions by inducing labor in the sixth, seventh and even eighth months, and then allegedly stabbing the babies in the neck to sever their spinal cords.

Sometimes, the elderly physician didn't do this right away. Often, he allegedly gave the chore to his unlicensed office staff. One premature infant wiggled around on a counter for 20 minutes before an untrained worker slit his neck - after first playing with him.

I blame the “pro-choice” absolutists and their enablers in the liberal media. These absolutists include the usual suspects like NOW, NARAL, Pro Choice America, Emily’s List, and Nancy Pelosi.

Their thinking espouses complete rights to abortion. They insist that woman should have access to abortion as late as necessary—even in the last three months of gestation.

For them, abortion is a simple issue of a woman’s reproductive right, not a moral quandary with areas of gray and reasonable, common sense cut off dates.

To them, if a woman submits to any limitation of her “reproductive rights”, like banning late term abortions, it would lead to the feared “slippery slope” and soon the legal protections granted by Roe v. Wade, will evaporate. Women must not give up an inch or pro-life legislators will take a mile of freedoms.

As the case of Gosnell demonstrates, this kind of extreme, abolitionist-kind-of-reasoning leads to murder and butchery, all for the purpose to save reproductive rights. Ironically, it is exactly this kind of thinking that actually helps those who want to ban all types of abortions. Once the hyper-partisan crowd understands this, we can really have a nation, like President Bill Clinton desired, where abortion would be “safe, legal, and rare”.